The HicAB cassette, a putative novel, RNA-targeting toxin-antitoxin system in archaea and bacteria
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The HicAB cassette, a putative novel, RNA-targeting toxin-antitoxin system in archaea and bacteria
Toxin-antitoxin systems (TAS) are abundant, diverse, horizontally mobile gene modules that encode powerful resistance mechanisms in prokaryotes. We use the comparative-genomic approach to predict a new TAS that consists of a two-gene cassette encoding uncharacterized HicA and HicB proteins. Numerous bacterial and archaeal genomes encode from one to eight HicAB modules which appear to be highly ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioinformatics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1460-2059,1367-4803
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl418